Every so often someone comes up with a bit of software that makes you ask, “Why hasn’t anyone done this before?” Enter MiniMail. I’ve only been playing with it for a few minutes, and I’m already hooked.

MiniMail is a plugin for Apple’s Mail application. Just as the mini-player in iTunes does for music; MiniMail puts information about your inbox at your fingertips. You can easily see messages as they arrive, and quickly action them. You can resize the window any way you like to conserve as much screen real-estate as possible.

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Up until recently, I had always used gmail by typing http://gmail.com into my browser. At some point, however, I started asking myself questions about security and wondered if an https flavor was available. It turns out that it had been there all along and so began the era of more secure gmail for me.

https://gmail.com — O’Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog